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Kunekune Pigs
In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: bioluminescence
by Katie the Lowly Intern As a kid, I was always interested in bioluminescence: So I can't really pass up the chance to post about beings that can produce their own light. Marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at...
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Category: worm
For the last few months, a killer stalked the streets of Cornwall... or more specifically, the water of Cornwall, and even more specifically, the living reefs exhibit at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium. Day after day, aquarists would return to the...
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Category: worm
The secrets of "worm grunting" revealed!!!
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Category: worm
Meet a giant predatory Antarctic worm
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Category: worm
Giant bright blue earthworm from Australia has mucin that glows in the dark.
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Category: worm
Today, Zooillogix takes you deep inside Benny's colon to reveal a writhing round worm! NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH WEAK STOMACHS Ladies - Here's a tip. Benny is just as cute on the outside as the inside! Thanks to Craig McClain...
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Category: jellyfish
Buddenbrockia plumatellaeDiscovered in 1851, the Buddenbrockia worm has long confounded scientists--it seems like a worm, but has some very unworm-like characteristics. Unlike similar looking creatures, such as nematodes, the Buddenbrockia's body does not have separate organs. Its insides are totally...
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Category: Lizard
This month marks Carl Linnaeus' 300th birthday and biology textbooks still look much the way he imagined they should. Linnaeus is the father of the ranking system of classifying the living world. You might remember kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus,...
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Category: worm
Scientists are "baffled" by the discovery of a strange worm-like, serpentine creature off the cost of Juno Beach in Florida. Diver Jay Garbose caught the 7-10 foot creature on film as it slithered around the ocean floor. Watch his astonishing...
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